Take a look at TS Freeplay.....
Here they are, with fancy interactive hand dryers, paper towel dispensers and toilets with a wall flushing mechanism , and TS4 doesn't even have freaking stalls....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEz_SlgmNc
I honestly can't understand why this happens.... the Firemonkeys clearly have much more love for their fans compared to Maxis. I understand that the Sims Freeplay is a mobile game with the shady microtransactions and all of that.....but at the same time here I am paying top price for an EP (40€ which is almost the price of a new game) with barely any interactive objects, rabbit holes and recycled animations from other packs sold as if they were brand new.
And on top of that Maxis just doesn't seem all that creative....or interested in giving fans what they ask for....when compared to their Australian co-workers. One of the coolest things about TS2 was how grounded it was, with teens actually getting acne, functional animated cars, etc. Real life things, some that may have seemed small but made the whole lifesim experience richer and deeper. While hand blowers and functional hand towel dispensers may seem kind of lame when thought of, at the end of the day they are part of the real life experience of going to any mall or public bathroom ever in the 21'st century, so it makes sense to have them.....yet they aren't present on TS4, which is suppose to be a lifesim. But like this there are many other examples, like curtains opening and closing when you click on them, waiters that have drink trays, from which other sims can get drinks from, etc.
It just annoys me that they keep on insisting on adding these ridiculous things that no one asked for....like rocketships, giant observatories, talking toilets, tablet checkouts, oddjobs, sleeping pods....etc, over more realistic things. The key word here is over and not on top of. I hope TS5 won't be like this, not this weird repetitive and uninspired mess which barely simulates life itself. I would hope a more creative yet grounded team would take over, but I have no hope tbh. Sorry for the rant, but this has been something that has been annoying me in this game since it launched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEz_SlgmNc
I honestly can't understand why this happens.... the Firemonkeys clearly have much more love for their fans compared to Maxis. I understand that the Sims Freeplay is a mobile game with the shady microtransactions and all of that.....but at the same time here I am paying top price for an EP (40€ which is almost the price of a new game) with barely any interactive objects, rabbit holes and recycled animations from other packs sold as if they were brand new.
And on top of that Maxis just doesn't seem all that creative....or interested in giving fans what they ask for....when compared to their Australian co-workers. One of the coolest things about TS2 was how grounded it was, with teens actually getting acne, functional animated cars, etc. Real life things, some that may have seemed small but made the whole lifesim experience richer and deeper. While hand blowers and functional hand towel dispensers may seem kind of lame when thought of, at the end of the day they are part of the real life experience of going to any mall or public bathroom ever in the 21'st century, so it makes sense to have them.....yet they aren't present on TS4, which is suppose to be a lifesim. But like this there are many other examples, like curtains opening and closing when you click on them, waiters that have drink trays, from which other sims can get drinks from, etc.
It just annoys me that they keep on insisting on adding these ridiculous things that no one asked for....like rocketships, giant observatories, talking toilets, tablet checkouts, oddjobs, sleeping pods....etc, over more realistic things. The key word here is over and not on top of. I hope TS5 won't be like this, not this weird repetitive and uninspired mess which barely simulates life itself. I would hope a more creative yet grounded team would take over, but I have no hope tbh. Sorry for the rant, but this has been something that has been annoying me in this game since it launched.
